the Health Ranger exposes health deceptions while promoting honest health solutions

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the Health Ranger exposes health deceptions while promoting honest health solutions Print Link http://www.newstarget.com/012092.html nutritional supplementsPage 1 | next page ->Posted Sep 30, 2005 PT by the Health Ranger (Mike Adams) I've received a lot of reader feedback since writing the article on the Hoodia scam, and it appears some people are a little bit confused about my position on the issue. Why I would choose to write about a nutritional supplement company that was selling a counterfeit product and using a lot of unscrupulous marketing tactics? Let me clarify here: I am not a defender of all nutritional supplements and everything natural health just because it's a supplement or just because it's a vitamin. Simultaneously, I am not a critic of everything from the pharmaceutical industry. This article is a clarification is exactly what I stand for, why I'm a huge defender of Free Speech, and why I'm willing to hunt down crooks in any industry and expose them for all the world to see. Let's start with some basics: the number one cause of death in this country is organized medicine and there is a huge effort out there to try to discredit nutritional supplements and prevent people from learning the truth about how supplements and nutrition (see related ebook on nutrition) can not only prevent chronic disease, but even reverse it. There's plenty of evidence for this. However, that doesn't mean I'm not willing to stand up and point out a company in the nutritional supplements industry that is ripping off customers. I'm not going to stand by idly or just walk away from an issue like that if I become aware of it, and I'm convinced the hoodia company I've covered before is not only ripping people off, but may possibly be harming folks, because who knows what's really in those capsules that are being sold to customers? I don't know what was in the capsules I received. What I do know, though, according to the lab results I got from the three different tests that Truth Publishing paid for, was that it was not Hoodia Gordonii. I know that for sure. We don't need new regulations, we need to prosecute crooksSome of the other emails I received said, "Hey Mike, why are you doing this? It's almost like you're calling for regulation of the nutritional supplements industry." That's definitely not my position. Even if there were additional regulation of the supplements industry, the FDA is the wrong body to do it. The FDA has well proven it's going to defend the financial interests of the pharmaceutical industry at all costs, it's going to discredit supplements and herbs (and especially Chinese herbs) at every opportunity and it's going to completely ignore any standards of safety for prescription drugs. For example, the FDA panel voted to put Vioxx back on the market, even though this drug – according to the FDA's own drug researcher, Dr. David Graham – has caused 144,000 heart attacks, and at least 40 percent of those were fatal. Apparently that is not dangerous enough for the FDA to say, "Hey, this should be taken off the market." So, there's no question the FDA shouldn't be regulating nutritional supplements -- they just don't have the integrity to handle it. If anything, the FDA seemingly just wants to wipe out supplements altogether. continues on page 2 →